“An ordeal for the family, a failure for me” – Claude Poirier

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Claude Poirier

QMI agency

Monday, 31 July, 2017 17:28

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Ten years have passed and nobody has forgotten her smile, her freckles and her scarf scout, especially not Claude Poirier, for which the disappearance of Cédrika Provencher, a young girl of nine years of Trois-Rivières that he has not managed to bring back alive to his parents, is a failure.

Martin and Karine Provencher had requested the reporter to help find Cédrika, a few hours after the abduction of their daughter, because they trusted him. During four and a half months, day and night, Claude Poirier took him to a cell whose number was widely disseminated in the media. “I had to have 700 or 800 calls. 90 %, of the gaudy, you know. […] It was a failure.”

“I had 100 000 $ at my disposal, I thought that someone [would speak]. If a pedophile kidnaps a child and does not tell his story at the beginning, good evening, thank you very much. Often, the information comes from a guy who is not capable of living with his secret and entrust them to someone”, he exposed.

See you in Saint-Maurice

Nothing conclusive since July 31, 2007, the evening of the disappearance of Cédrika, which would be mounted aboard a vehicle near the park Chapais in order to help a man find his dog. However, Claude Poirier has claimed to have received a call that would have put it on a track interesting, but his hearing has played tricks.

“Someone had contacted me to tell me to meet him on the edge of the 40. I had understood Saint-Sulpice, I waited, but nothing. I was never called back. It was Saint-Maurice, where the bones were found,” recalled Claude Poirier. The human remains of the small Cédrika were discovered by chance in a wooded area by two hunters, in December 2015.

He’s talking about, but demonstrated little, Claude Poirier has regrets, the story was undermined. “I would not have found living if I had well understood the message, but we would probably have found the bones more quickly”, he dropped.

“Sloppy job “

The reporter argues that “police work was very poorly done from the start. It is known that the 24, first 36 hours are crucial”.

It would have been necessary to activate an AMBER alert because witnesses had spoken of an Acura red hanging around the park Chapais to police officers of Three Rivers, has supported Claude Poirier. The mother of Cédrika, Karine, had even begged the police officers to do, without success, he said.

The investigation was eventually transferred to the Sûreté du Québec (SQ). Investigators have always had a He in their line of sight, but in ten years, they have not managed to put their primary suspect behind bars for the kidnapping and murder of Cédrika Provencher.

“It has been an ordeal for the family and a failure for me. I have failed,” breathed Claude Poirier.